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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Baltimore,
Chcsape'ke and

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Delaware Bay
Railroad

Maryland, That the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Del-

aware Bay Railroad Company, a corporation duly

incorporated on the twenty-second day of August, in

the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, under

the provisions of an act, entitled " an act to provide

for the creation and regulation of incorporated com-

panies in the State of Maryland," approved, April

the fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy, for the

purpose of building, equipping, maintaining and

working a railroad from a point on the line dividing

the States of Delaware and Maryland, where the Bal-

timore, Chesapeake and Delaware Bay Railroad, a

company incorporated by the General Assembly of

the State of Delaware, at its January session, held at

Dover, in eighteen hundred and seventy-three, ter-

minates, thence running westwardly through the coun-
ties of Caroline and Queen Anne's in this State, to

navigable water on Kent Island in said county- of

Queen Anne's, there to connect with steamboats and

barges, shall have the power, on the completion of

its railroad or any part thereof, to demand and re-

May demand
and receive

ceive such sum or sums of money for tolls on persons

or property transported by said company, as they

shall from time to time deem reasonable and proper.

Par value of

SEC 2. And be it enacted. That the par value of the

Capital stock
reduced

capital stock of the said company, be and the same
is hereby reduced from fifty dollars to twenty-five

dollars per share.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the principal office

Principal office

of the said company shall be in Baltimore city.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said company

shall have the power to lease, buy and build wharves,

houses and shops for corporate purposes ; to charter,

purchase and hold steamships, steamboats and barges

to ply in connection with their railroad, to any port

Powers

or ports, place or places whatsoever ; and to contract

with the owner or owners of any steamboat or other

railroad company, for the transportation of freight

and passengers to and from any such railroads or

steamboats.

To condemn

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the President and

land

Directors of the said Baltimore, Chesapeake and